Many cultural anthropologists today share a common theoretical commitment: to view the people they encounter during fieldwork as living among multiple social orders that are interconnected and contingent. When social orders are multiple, ethnographers are quickly faced with the question of how people construct the boundaries between these social orders to be both durable (enough) to keep social orders distinct and porous (enough) to allow people, objects, forms, and ideas to circulate across them in appropriate ways. What counts as appropriate is, not surprisingly, often hotly contested. Despite contemporary ethnographers’ varied intellectual trajectories, a crosscutting set of theoretical assumptions unites their work and shapes how they approach familiar anthropological foci, such as circulation, ritual, scale, and power. [porous boundaries, social orders, circulation, ritual, scale, power, fieldwork, ethnography, theory]

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多孔的社会秩序

今天，许多文化人类学家都有一个共同的理论承诺：将他们在田野调查中遇到的人们视为生活在相互联系且偶然的多个社会秩序之中。当社会秩序多种多样时，民族志研究人员很快就会面临一个问题，即人们如何在这些社会秩序之间构建边界以既持久（足够）以保持社会秩序鲜明又多孔（足够）以允许人，物体，形式和思想以适当的方式在他们之间传播。不足为奇的是，经常会引起激烈争论。尽管当代民族志学家的智力轨迹各不相同，但一系列交叉的理论假设将他们的工作统一起来，并塑造了他们如何处理熟悉的人类学重点，例如流通，仪式，规模和权力。[多孔边界，社会秩序，流通，仪式，规模，权力，田野调查，民族志，理论]